[ UK /ʌndˈuː/ ]
[ US /ənˈdu/ ]
VERB
  1. cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect
    I wish I could undo my actions
  2. remove the outer cover or wrapping of
    undo the parcel
    Let's unwrap the gifts!
  3. deprive of certain characteristics
  4. cause the ruin or downfall of
    A single mistake undid the President and he had to resign
  5. cause to become loose
    untie the knot
    undo the shoelace
    loosen the necktie
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How To Use undo In A Sentence

  • People were gulping down sundowners, women seemed to be, rather disinterestedly, sipping their drinks and picking up a bite.
  • What is done cannot be undone
  • The council said that cuts to national park budgets risked undoing that work. Times, Sunday Times
  • Northern migratory species winter in the savanna, such as spotted sandpiper Actitis macularia, barn swallow Hirundo rustica and blackpoll warbler Dendroica striata. Canaima National Park, Venezuela
  • And then there was Munster's inability to cope with the dinks and kicks through by Duncan McRae and Henry Paul which eventually proved their undoing.
  • Unfortunately, the group's dalliance with satanism proved to be their undoing, the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
  • He is capable of taking over this game, and if he does, Illinois' primary weakness will be its undoing.
  • We have a bunch of Wackadoo doos, who cannot accept that this Black man is the President of the United States and who are going around claiming that he is an undocumented alien and basically suggesting that he arrived at the presidency unlegimately. Police group: Obama should apologize
  • The hard labor of the farm was mostly done by them, and on the floor of the big kitchen, toward sundown, would be squatting a circle of twelve or fourteen "pickaninnies," eating their supper of pudding (Indian corn mush) and milk. November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
  • The shirt was that little bit too pink, there was one button too many left carefully-casually undone and the tan was a shade and a half too dark.
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